Here's the official announcement, although I suspect it doesn't contain any surprises now:

Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema
Blu-ray & DVD box sets released on 11 June 2018

Includes A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and two cuts of Tom Jones

This year the ground-breaking British film company Woodfall Films celebrates its 60th anniversary. After a popular season at BFI Southbank throughout April, on 11 June 2018 the BFI will release 9-disc Blu-ray and DVD box sets containing some of Woodfall’s most revered films, many newly restored.

A huge array of special features includes interviews with Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin, archive material, shorts from the BFI National Archive and an 80-page book.

One film, THE KNACK… and how to get it, will also be released in a Dual Format Edition on 18 June. Details to follow in due course.

Woodfall revolutionised British cinema during the 1960s with a slate of iconic films. Founded in 1958 by director Tony Richardson, writer John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman (James Bond), the company pioneered the British New Wave, defining an incendiary brand of social realism. Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959), and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960) spot-lit working-class life with unheard-of honesty. The same risk-taking spirit led the company to find a new generation of brilliant young actors to star in their films, such as Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham. The global blockbuster Tom Jones (1963) expanded the Woodfall slate in an irreverent, colourful direction that helped define swinging London – further securing its extraordinary chapter in the history of British film.

These box sets bring together eight of Woodfall’s early ground-breaking films, many now newly restored and on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Each set contains:

• Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959), starring Richard Burton as a jazz trumpeter
• The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960), which stars Laurence Olivier as ageing music-hall veteran Archie Rice
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960) (as previously released by the BFI), starring Albert Finney as factory worker Arthur Seaton
• A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961), legendary kitchen sink drama focusing on working-class women, with a script by Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962) (as previously released by the BFI) starring Tom Courtenay at Colin Smith
• Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963), (both the original theatrical release and the 1989 Director’s Cut), a raucous and innovative multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding
• Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964) with Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave and Peter Finch in a lively adaptation by Edna O’Brien of her own novel
• THE KNACK…and how to get it (Richard Lester, 1965) which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes

The transfer of THE KNACK is the same as on the older MGM DVD. You can tell because of the specks and tramlines in the opening credits. Why was this not upgraded? Did MGM refuse permission for restoration work? The other films are upgrades (2 previous BFI restorations, 2 Criterion restorations and 3 new.)

A great assemblage of titles, a reminder of what a fertile era that was for British cinema. A good opportunity for me to see at least one title for the first time (Look Back in Anger) or deepen my apreciation of others (Girl with Green Eyes, which I have just watched) thanks to all of the relevant extras. Who knows, perhaps I will even revise my original negative vew of The Knack, from when I saw it a few decades ago.

Are there later Woodfall titles that would warrant similar extensive treatment on HD? I suppose The Charge of the Light Brigade is in dire need of an upgrade, while Kes already had its MoC edition. I see that in the movies, mostly directed by Tony Richardson, which came after this selection there are for example titles with Jeanne Moreau, one from a Duras novel, but I don't think I have heard or read much if anything about them.

The BFI's Ben Stoddart recently floated the possibility of a second Woodfall volume, and there's certainly enough remaining in their catalogue to be able to fill a box of equivalent size, but the rights situation starts to get messier from the late 1960s onwards. And of course The Charge of the Light Brigade would pretty much have to be included, as it's by far the most famous Woodfall title not in the existing box - and I understand that the materials situation for that is particularly messy.

Which is why, very sensibly, they didn't stick a hostage-to-fortune "Volume One" on the current box!